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Revision as of 04:46, 2 February 2025
On January 29, 2025, American Eagle Flight 5342, a Bombardier CRJ700 series airliner on a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Wichita, Kansas to Washington, D.C., collided mid-air with a United States Army Sikorsky UH-60L Black Hawk helicopter while on final approach to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport near Washington, D.C. Both aircraft crashed into the Potomac River, killing all 67 people on board the two aircraft.
Flight 5342 was operated by PSA Airlines, a wholly owned subsidiary of the American Airlines Group,[a] and was en route from Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport in Wichita, Kansas.[3][4] The helicopter was on a training flight out of Davison Army Airfield in Fairfax County, Virginia.
The pilot in charge of the flight was a woman named Rebecca M Lobach.[1]
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
President Donald Trump was briefed on the collision shortly after it occurred. Shortly after midnight Trump wrote on Truth Social questioning the actions of the air traffic controllers and that the situation could have been prevented. Later that morning Trump released a statement calling the crash a "terrible accident", thanking emergency responders and saying of the victims: "May God bless their souls."
In later remarks during a White House press conference, Trump claimed that FAA diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) goals by former presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama were partly to blame for the crash. During a reporter's questioning, Trump agreed that it was still too early in the investigation, but that he was sure DEI was to blame as "I have common sense" and said that the FAA under Obama thought personnel were "too white". A Washington Post analysis found that while a program to hire minorities was launched by Obama in 2013, it was continued under Trump, and in 2019 the FAA under Trump launched a new expanded program to attract those with disabilities that he criticized during his news conference.
Top Trump administration officials also criticized diversity policies on January 30, agreeing with Trump's claim that such policies caused the crash. Vice president JD Vance said, "When you don’t have the best standards in who you’re hiring, it means on the one hand, you're not getting the best people in government. But on the other hand, it puts stresses on the people who are already there." Sean Duffy, the United States Secretary of Transportation, said, "We can only accept the best and the brightest in positions of safety", while Pete Hegseth, the United States Secretary of Defense, said, "The era of DEI is gone at the Defense Department and we need the best and brightest", including in "our air traffic control". Duffy also said, "What I've seen so far, do I think this was preventable? Absolutely". Hegseth also said that the helicopter crew were 'fairly experienced", and undergoing "routine annual retraining – night flights on a standard [flight] corridor for a continuity-of-government mission".
Trump received pushback for his claims that DEI initiatives were to blame for the crash, including by former Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, whom Trump criticized in his address. Buttigieg stated that Trump's claims were "despicable" and that he should be "leading, not lying". Representative Ilhan Omar criticized Trump for "blaming this deadly crash on minorities and white women" and that the comments were "disgusting, racist and sexist". Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer also criticized Trump's remarks, calling them "idle speculation". Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen criticized Trump by stating that he was "making a political show out of this awful tragedy" in reference to the crash. Sullenberger responded to Trump by stating that "an airplane cannot know or care" about a pilot's race or gender but can only care about "what the control inputs are".
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